Italian authorities have reportedly not yet ruled out poisoning in the case of a self-exiled top Kremlin official who suddenly fell ill over the weekend and had to be hospitalized.
at the same time that Italian authorities are still probing the cause of Chubais’ sudden illness—and the intelligence services are said to be awaiting his blood test results in order to make sure he wasn’t poisoned.The former Rusnano CEO is said to have already shot down speculation that he’d been poisoned. “These are very understandable suspicions.
Chubais, a close ally of Putin since the 1990s, is a hugely influential figure in Russian politics—in 1996, he even gave Putin, then a nobody, his first job in the Kremlin. Though the Kremlin publicly shrugged off his resignation and departure in March, Putin delivered a fiery speech that same month attacking Russians who choose the West over their homeland—using the exact“Any people, and particularly the Russian people, will always be able to tell the patriots from the scum and traitors and spit them out like a midge that accidentally flew into their mouths,” Putin said, before cheering on the “self-cleansing” he said was happening in Russian society.
His spokesman later clarified that the “purification” described by Putin referred to Russians who “are disappearing from our lives by themselves,” be it by emigrating or resigning from their positions.
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